Authoritative Restore

Question

Dear Team,

I m trying to perform authoritative restore for one OU . but its not Woking
after replication restore object getting deleted.
Please find below step

1. Booting system in DSRM.
2. login with DSRM credential
3. Disabling AD services
   4.Restoring system state using wbladmin
4. Performing authoritative restore command
   restore subtree "ou=,DC=,DC=***"
   After restore rebooting AD in normal mode.

..But post replication restored OU gets deleted

Thanks,

source link: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/28be137d-58b1-43d3-b68d-37d2c11218db/authoritative-restore?forum=winserversetup

Answer 1

Welcome to our new Microsoft Q&A Platform.

You might have to perform an authoritative restore if an administrator inadvertently deletes an organizational unit (OU) containing a large number of users. If you restore the server from tape, the normal replication process would not restore the inadvertently deleted OU. Authoritative restore allows you to mark the OU as authoritative and force the replication process to restore it to all the other domain controllers in the domain.

Source:

authoritative restore

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-r2-and-2012/cc732211(v%3Dws.11)

In fact, for Authoritative Restore question, you’d better ask for help from Directory Services forum. The reason why we recommend posting appropriately is you will get the most qualified pool of respondents, and other partners who read the forums regularly can either share their knowledge or learn.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=winserverDS

Thanks for your understanding and cooperating.